maria__ -- we have thousands of customers who have been impacted by this bug and it simply is not feasible to ask them to uninstall that update. Furthermore, it is not exactly 'easy' to do this under Windows 10, especially given that many of these customers are novice computer users. Any ETA as to when Adobe/Microsoft will push out a fix? We REALLY need this!

Microsoft will be making an update (KB3133431) available today for Flash Player 20.0.0.272 ActiveX on Windows 10. This update addresses both the embedding issue and a crash reported by customers. The update should be available via the Windows Update settings panel.

We're continuing to work with Microsoft to explore options for Windows 8.x users and will keep this thread updated.

I've heard from Microsoft that the Windows 8.x update will occur on the normal patch Tuesday, 1/12/16. Flash Player 20.0.0.272 ActiveX will be updated at that time along with Microsoft's other OS patches.

Unfortunately the sound issue is different than what we've fixed in the current release on Windows.

I'm hopeful I'll have a test build that I'll be able to make available on this thread (and the sound related threads) that will allow you to test our current fix for the sound specific problem. If everything cooperates, I should have something available to test by the end of day tomorrow (1/8).

If you've been impacted by one of these bugs, please try the beta out and let us know if it helps or you see other issues.

We still have one critical sound bug (Bug 4103304 - “Timelines with multiple layers are unable to stop playing sound”) that we are currently working to resolve. We had hoped to get a test build out today but our internal testing found that we hadn't fully solved the problem. We're actively working on a new fix and I'm hopeful I'll have something to try in a few days.

Bug 4103304 - “Timelines with multiple layers are unable to stop playing sound”

If you've been impacted by one of these bugs, please try the this build out and let us know if it helps or if you see other issues. The link below contains installers for both Mac and Windows, ActiveX, NPAPI, and PPAPI.

For Windows 8.x and Windows 10 users, you will receive all Flash Player ActiveX updates directly from Microsoft (through KB installers or from the Windows Update service.) ActiveX installers downloaded from Adobe will not work on these operating systems.

We've verified that the Windows 8.x installs can now be downloaded from Windows Update.

Please note that the update to Windows 8.x that chris.campbell mentions in post 58 is for 20.0.0.272, and not 20.0.0.286. Microsoft released 20.0.0.272 for Windows 10 on 05-Jan but did not release it for Windows 8.x at that time. They released 20.0.0.272 for Windows 8.x on 12-Jan, patch Tuesday.

As chris.campbell mentions in post 53, build 20.0.0.286 was released as a test build for our users to verify the 3 bugs he mentions in that post.

Unfortunately, this discussion thread, which was originally about one topic, has been conflated with multiple topics and it is now difficult, at best, to keep track of issues.

Bug 4103304 - “Timelines with multiple layers are unable to stop playing sound”

This release is available from get.adobe.com/flashplayer and will also be available on Google Chrome through the Chrome Component updater. Windows 8.x and Windows 10 ActiveX versions will be updated in our regularly scheduled February 9th release and made available in the Windows Updater.

We have screen savers that work using embedded Flash player. With the release of 20.0.0.267, there was a problem with white screen. When 20.0.0.270 was released we found that this fixed the problem on most, but not all systems. When 20.0.0.286 was released we deployed it to test systems and the white screen problem has returned on all systems where 20.0.0286 has been installed. It seems that 20.0.0.270 is the one that is working the best - but still results in white screens on a significant portion of our client computers. Looking in the Macromed folder in both the 32 and 64bit areas of the Windows folder, I can see that only 286 or 270 components are present. I haven't seen a client that is functional with either the 267 or 286 releases. I have only seen the Flash based screen savers work with 270 - and even then only with a 90% success rate.

Yes, I understand what you are saying... that supposedly the problem with whitescreens in non-browser applications with embedded flash player has been fixed in 20.0.0.270 and 20.0.0.286. That is why I posted. For me, the problem WAS fixed with 20.0.0.270 - mostly - - 5-10% of our clients still got white screens after 270. So far, EVERY machine we have upgraded to 20.0.0.286 has returned to whitescreening with the screensaver that has an embedded flash player.

The screensaver application is the only one I have that uses embedded flash. It works in pre-267, breaks in 267, works (kind of with 270) and fails with 286.

tthe screesavers are created with a tool called flashpoint from flashdemo.net. It converts PowerPoint presentations to flash basEd screen savers. I would be happy to purchase an alternate tool if it meant fixing the problem. the screensave that is broken in 267 and 286 works with previous versions of Flash player 20.

You noted about '...embedding the Flash Player ActiveX controlinto non-browser applications with...' and another comment says '...I can confirm Flash Player 20.0.0.268 Active X embedded into a C# .NET WinForm...'

Does this mean that it is allowed to embed the ocx file from the activeX version into an application, for example a Delphi program? And if not, is there a special license or fee to pay to realise this?

For me and my customers it's so much easier to work this way by not being dependent from instable versions.